I02 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 



Toluca, in the State of Mexico. Some of the specimens found were 

 donated to the State Museum at Toluca ; others are yet unpacked ; 

 twenty-one, however, are available for immediate examination. The 

 first of these specimens were dug out early in 1895 ; the rest have 

 been taken out at various times since. They were associated, like the 

 Michoacan specimens, with human skeletons. Like those described 

 by Lumholtz and Hrdlicka, they are all long bones. Among them 

 are 14 femora, 2 humeri, 5 tibiae. That this material maybe available 

 for study and reference, I present in tabulated form the data, yielded 

 by its examination. Anatomical data are omitted as hardly relevant 

 to our question. 



In this table the bone is considered as divided into parts from above 

 down: where the third fourth is said to be occupied with notches, it 

 is the third fourth counting downward. The average separation is 

 given by the measure from the middle of one notch to the middle of 

 the next notch. The depth given is only approximate and is the 

 depth of the deepest notch ; it is rare that the notches are of the same 

 depth : the deepest are usually the middle ones — those at the ends of 

 the series are generally notably shallow, though not always. 



It is proper here to indicate the location of other specimens so far 

 as I know them. Besides those already mentioned in the Museum at 

 Toluca there are eight specimens in the National Museum in the City 

 of Mexico. These specimens I have examined. Most of them are 

 far more decomposed than the specimens already described, but are 

 plainly the same thing. In the catalogue of the Anthropological Col- 

 lections published by the Museum we read : " Worked Iwnes of Tlate- 

 lolco and Xico: such were marked to record the hunt. Of the Chi- 

 chemecs they say, 'that they were the greatest murderers and robbers 

 in the world. They are so proud of this inhumanity, that for a 

 blason they carry with them on a bone the count of those whom they 

 have killed, and some of them contain twenty-eight, thirty, or even 

 more.' (Die. Univ. de Hist, y Geog. Apen., vol. ix., p. 69). We 

 have met with an example in Anacuco, Chalco, Hke those of Tlatelolco, 

 with twenty-eight notches.' " (Translated.) 



Not only were human bones so notched, but animal bones as well. 

 Sehor Chavero, according to Orozco y Berra (see quotation below) had 

 a rib of a fossil elephant, which had been so treated. 



I cannot claim to have diligently examined the literature for men- 

 tion of such notched bones. Since securing my first specimens I have. 



